skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Singapore just solved the water problem huh ?
They still need to test how much water can be extracted in dry climates, but that 95% conversion ration for humid climates is very promising.
I disagree, I’ve spent hours and hours of research on a build with similar volume as the m78 and it’s generally a nightmare.
> How can you make an honest ROI if you don't have income?

This seems like a very curious view of the world to me. Do you believe that people who buy houses and sell them at a profit 20 years later are dishonest?
It looks to me that Toyota has thrown away a huge advantage. Thet could have had an early lead with their experience with hybrids.
Agreed. Hospital overflows is the main issue - and we know that things are far worse in winter than in summer. Come May things will be heading back to normal, and hospital collapse won’t be the concern it was this year come next October due to widespread vaccination.

At least in the west, global logistics of vaccination seem to have collapsed. We need to, as a species, get on top of vaccine rollout for next time. It’s delayed at the moment because we didn’t make enough vials over summer FFS.
Yes, it's at the computer history museaum. :)

And in the last few years, there's a boat building up similar fame:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3DBenchy

That said, an image search of "dresser teapot" shows some very interesting teapots, like wow:

https://static.petersofkensington.com.au/images/ProductImage...
50% capacity for energy storage might be ok for
Home gamers but no utility scale project is going to spend all the money on permitting, construction and the rest of the power infrastructure and then get batteries that are beat up.
In the attention industry content is created to package attention and formalize it enough to be a commodity that can be sold to advertisers. The whole very much depends on this model of production, and if we don't find a good substitute this will continue ...
It's not a local problem just because it's not a European problem.

Plenty of countries don't have that reliable electricity.
For fun and learning ?
Apparently all over?

> CPSC also warns consumers that private storage of more than a limited amount of gasoline (usually five gallons or less) is illegal in many areas, and subsequent fire damage may not be covered by insurance policies.

from https://www.cpsc.gov/zhT-CN/node/21151
Could consanguineous marriage be a cultural remedy for the obstetric dilemma?
It took me at least a month to learn all Hiragana + katakana using getkana and they only really stuck after I began learning vocabulary. Learning them in a day is impossible. You can look them up if you want to get started on day one but that is completely different from actually knowing the by heart.
I understand that there might be two sides to these stories, but I don't get how anybody ever would rely fully on Google for their companies mission critical infrastructure unless it is something like a lemonade stand. If you have a specific contract with Google that manages reliability/availability sufficiently that would be sth. else, but who has that?

It may be that I am out of touch with the other HN users on this one, but "$megacorp does something that on purpose/accidentally blocks my service" doesn't surprise me at all. That the megacorp is legally in the right on their own turf is even less unsurprising and not the point. There is a price to not running your own infrastructure and this price becomes tangible when something like this happens for whatever reason.
The email section of your profile is only between you and ycombinator. You need to put it in the about section if you want other users to be able to see it.
> And electricity is much cheaper than gas.

Maybe.

When I was commuting, my daily driver gas car got 36 MPG. My commute used 0.72 gallons. At $3.55/gallon, the trip cost $2.56 or about 9.9 cents/mile.

At the same time I had a Fiat 500e. The same commute consumed 11kWh.

So the breakeven point (between my two cars) is $0.24/kWh in electric cost.

Looking at my PG&E bill, peak time (4pm-9pm) cost is $0.35/kWh and part-peak (9pm-midnight) is $0.34/kWh. These are winter time prices, they are much higher in the summer (but I only have my current bill handy).

So if I had to ever charge the electric car during peak or part-peak times, it is quite a bit more expensive than gas.

Now, of course, I only charge it at night (PG&E price $0.17/kWh) so it is a bit cheaper. Just need to be careful to set the timer so charging never starts before midnight.
80% capacity is EOL for pretty much all batteries. Below that, you start to see issues with output. Its not like a tank of gas where 80% full still means you have 4/5ths of the power of a full tank available to you.
From the article:

A $12 Billion Plan

"Approved an investment to establish a wholly-owned subsidiary in Arizona, United States of America, with a paid-in capital of US$3.5 billion (approximately NT$99.75 billion)," the statement by TSMC reads.
A company wants to focus on their product or service instead of getting entangled into the clown festival of social justice politics, a topic that has nothing to do with said product or service.
Interesting. I guess the issues you see as a user depend on where you life / which carrier you are using?

I had more issues with iMessage delivery then I ever had with SMS in my whole life. I dont even remember a single incident with SMS delivery. And I consider your "missing media" point an advantage. Sending stupid videos from phone to phone is a disease that I dont want to deal with.
Yup, that's exactly it!

So, the culture was "it's okay to break things as long as you're moving fast". I don't think Telsa explicitly would say "it's okay to break things" to their engineers, but I do think they'd say "it's okay to ignore regulations".

In the end, they may have the same results, however it's all about what employees know they're safe getting away with.
"Real" for humans, is whatever we experience directly.
Therefore, colour is as real to a blind man as snow to a person who's born in the equator.
Is anger "real"? is love "real"? is depression "real"? - all those are very real for those who directly experienced them.
Mathematics is only real for those who experienced it directly.
> Their banking partner in the Bahamas is chaired by the man who created the Inspector Gadget TV series.

This sounds incredibly fitting for a cryptocurrency.
Why would Matrix have potentially larger privacy guarantees than Signal when self-hosted? As I understand it, when communicating with a user on a different homeserver, those chats are mirrored to that homeserver.
The information warriors fighting 'robot zombie army' of coronavirus sceptics
One has to distinguish between "autopilot" and "FSD". The "autopilot" is used for driving on highways and mostly uses radar for obstacle avoidance. It works great with handling traffic, that is cars moving around, but not for static obstactles. The problem is the low spatial resolution of the radar, so nonmoving obstacles are difficult to distinguish from the background reflections.

"FSD" is creating a 3d-model of the environment based on the camera image. But so far it is only active outside of highways. This should be much better at avoiding static obstacles. In any case, they are different systems so experiences with one cannot always be transferred to the other.
Not likely. I have done a lot of work on B-Tree indexing in Postgres in the past several years, and this is all Greek to me.
I'm calling bullshit on this. Source?
1m a day seems low for the US. U.K. is current or around the 400k a day mark and that’s with 1/6 the population.
Where Crypto Meets the Metaverse
It failed to attract customers and was sold at a fire sale. (I was an investor.)
Yeah the complexity is insane, millions of users is surprising tho I thought it would more be an aggregation of larger agents.
I guess unicorns optimize for delivery capacity not cost
It's not backed by nothing, Tether probably has at least $10B USD in cash or so in deposits safely stored somewhere.

The problem is that there are 25 billion USDT.
Uganda: Internet blocks and national Internet outage amid 2021 general election
Anim8or 3D modelling and character animation
Paris’s Best Hidden Secrets, Gustave Eiffel's Loft
The Loftfactory is a unique luxury space in the heart of Paris designed for modern stylish living for the happy few! Voted one of Europe’s most exceptional properties, incredibly the Loftfactory remains today relatively undiscovered!
Didn’t answer the question and didn’t even get close to the issues around it
For Plato mathematics was real, but not only that, the stuff we see around us was not.

In the Republic he therefore complains about mathematicians "... always talking in a narrow and ridiculous manner, of "squaring" and "extending" and "applying" and the like - they confuse the ways of geometry with those of daily life; whereas knowledge is the real object of the whole science."

I find it amazing that Plato wrote this 2000 years before it was taken up again (quite radically) by Brouwer's intuitionism, where "squaring", "extending", "applying" are the only way of doing mathematics (and proof by contradiction, one of Plato's favourite devices, is not admissible)

The article's conclusion "Just about everything [except basic number theory] in mathematics is determined by the society in which you live" is rather disappointing, and not at all contradicts the reality of mathematics, as those societies might just have made different discovery journeys in Plato's realm of eternal mathematical truth.
A critical review of mechanisms of adaptation to trauma
Yeah the network effect of WhatsApp is much stronger to me than, for instance, Facebook. A substantial amount of my “conversations” with friends and work-related are WhatsApp. I’d say to the degree that nowadays (in singapore) I’ve recently noticed new contacts (eg someone I buy something from on an online market) will say, “what’s your number where I can WhatsApp you?” Used to be “where do I [call, sms] you?”

I have no issue using telegram or signal, it’s just that the default choice is becoming/became whatsapp.

Cant stand Zuckerberg, but he does have an eye for products that can really explode in growth.
The US has been doing that for decades, and inflation has never been out of control.
Wow, really? That's insane. I wouldn't/couldn't imagine a company move away from Excel, wow.

Wow.
Why do you say $10B out of curiosity? The last hard numbers we had were when they issued ~2.5B, and had $800M siezed because they banked with a money launderer (CryptoCapital). If you look at the Bahamian government's report on domestic banks with USD on deposit, the total for all banks grew $1B last year while over $20B Tethers were issued.

Further, let's say they have $10B. If all of those are the proceeds of money laundering (and let's face it, they probably are, after all, why would anyone give Tether money when they could give Circle money or Coinbase money) - then they'd all be forfeit anyways.

And even if that's not true, they're under no obligation to redeem Tether tokens. Ever. It's in the T&Cs.

Tether reserves the right to delay the redemption or withdrawal of Tether Tokens if such delay is necessitated by the illiquidity or unavailability or loss of any Reserves held by Tether to back the Tether Tokens, and Tether reserves the right to redeem Tether Tokens by in-kind redemptions of securities and other assets held in the Reserves. Tether makes no representations or warranties about whether Tether Tokens that may be traded on the Site may be traded on the Site at any point in the future, if at all. [1]

[1] tether.to/legal
Apparently the post you're replying to is not very popular. But I think both yours and that post make valid points that don't even contradict each other. Because even if we pressure people to do the right thing, after all, this is presumably a free country and there seem to be plenty of people (quickly scanning this thread for percentage quotes, dangerously close to ruining the presumed herd immunity level) who will refuse - or neglect - to comply. But what can really be done about this?

Pressuring in form of awareness efforts will take probably years, and who knows how many deniers will even get it. I'm starting to read posts and "studies" about paying people off, which I think is insane - (1) the whole idea of people who want to fix this problem actually having to bribe via their taxes those people who refuse to accept reality, and (2) payoffs can simply be abused in a million ways - but whatever, say we all take one for the greater good. But then even a large-scale payoff effort will also take months if not years.

What else can you do to pressure people? Restrict their rights until they get a shot? Tell them their kids can't go to school until they show a QR proof of vaccine? Realistically, just how can you pressure people if you are not in North Korea? So then we're back to everyone on lockdown because of the stubborn few?
That is true, but notice that the autopilot you use on the highway is an entirely different software than the FSD beta which recently has been released for off-highway use.
> Note that with a gas car, you can't fill it up at home ever, for any reason (unless you have a well and refinery I guess).

Or a drum of gasoline and a hand pump which is very practical. If you live anywhere where outages and natural disaster are a thing, it's good to plan ahead.
Oldest Libraries in the World
If you can't charge at home, work or at a supermarket near you, then there's really no rush to get an EV.

A PHEV will get you most of the advantages, but it'll actually need more charging than a full EV or it's just an inefficient ICE car.
Not at the current level, much less that our new Administration is and will continue to push for.
In that case there will be tens of thousands of examples of people having covid back in April and having had it again in October and even again now.
Rs232 says the signals only need to be +-3v minimum, so 5v is well within spec
That could be something like 17 000 cm³ of water from 50 000 cm³ of aerogel. Its typical density is so low that weighing it barely makes sense; some types are even lighter than air.
From the first article I linked above:

"a new North Phoenix manufacturing facility and up to 1,900 new local jobs over a five-year period. With an estimated 20-year economic impact of $38.2 billion, TSMC represents Arizona’s largest-ever foreign direct investment."

From the second article I linked above:

"ahead of its planned US$12 billion wafer fab north of the city. "

So there seems to be some confusion...

Edit: ahh the OP seems to be referring to just the first payments. The Toms Hardware article goes on to say:

"In total, TSMC plans to spend $12 billion on its fab in Arizona from 2021 to 2029. The factory will employ about 1,600 people directly and thousands more indirectly."

Edit: add quote from first link
Well kind of depends what you mean. Kids do years of formal grammar in school here in Germany, the language is hard. Kids take a long time to pick up a language via immersion and they typically don’t need to express any complicated constructs. They also have all their needs met by a caregiver, I know what you’re getting at but it’s impractical for most adults to learn this way.
> Tesla's warnings to put your hands on the wheel are obviously insufficient based on regular videos of drivers asleep at the wheel on the freeway

Every Tesla owner will tell you that those videos where people are "falling asleep" are staged.

Why? because if you don't acknowledge the warnings, it will turn on the hazards stop and disable autopilot for the rest of the drive.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2uw97Gx1lYw
You have to mess around with plugins if you want to use Anki.

Learning Kanji is also really painful. I'm still only 75% done even though it has been a year already.
Yes, indeed you're right, my apologies!
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This article on running Wasm on the Roku is exactly what you need.

https://motley-coder.com/2020/12/20/webassembly-on-roku/
> he said (paraphrased) so the general public doesn't go out and buy them, causing a shortage

How is that dishonest? He was completely transparent about this motivation from the start, as shown from my clip from the earlier interview.
Tesla’s sales in Germany are up ~20%, but on a very low level. Their total market share is now 0.5 percent. It’a definitely encouraging to see growth here, but there’s still a long way to go.

It’s also important to keep in mind that the numbers for electric vehicles often include plug-in hybrids. They’re a neat idea in theory, but in practice, they often serve as a hybrid car and never get plugged in. The gains from those vehicles are somewhat limited, except that they are included in the subsidies for electric cars in Germany.
Calendar-maker: Make simple Calendars to print out
Thanks for the reply. And er, good that you don’t actually want to go as far as killing me - there’s some wild shit out there right now. I would still be in favor of arguing about all the details over drinks, but for now I’ll just offer the roughest outline of the other perspective, which is:

Refusing to accept a temporarily increased risk of disease, and instead dramatically increasing the chance that your fellow humans will be crushed under the boot of fascism is... also selfish at best.
Interesting:

We actually removed PDF export because there's no good libraries to handle PDF cmyk support.

My gut reaction as a programmer was: CMYK? How hard can it be? But then, I am no user of CMYK. All my experience is RGB, and in fact I am bad enough at color to not really notice it when color profiles are significantly off. CMYK is an unknown unknown for me, I don't even understand the troubles they are having.

So I think this touches a core problem of open source: The average hobbyist does not feel this itch, hence can't scratch it. You need someone with good understanding of the printing industry, maybe access to professional printing hardware. Hard to do on hobby time or as a lone programmer. This is an example of a whole class of problems where OSS tends to do worse than the industry average.

BTW, it pains me to say this as a regular user, krita is very good software.
What is more real - a concrete object, or the abstraction describing it. You could argue that number 5 is more real than for example 5 apples since you see it everywhere.
Hmmm.

What if instead of drunk driving, the accident that killed your kids involved distracted driving? Say, driver was texting? Eating a hamburger?

What if the driver was just driving 10mph over the speed limit? 15mph?

What if the driver fell asleep at the wheel?

What if the driver was driving on bald tires and a blowout precipitated the accident? What if they were only 95% worn out? 80%?

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There are different levels of culpability. Drunk driving is negligent and bad, but I hope we can all agree it is not as bad as willful murder. Five years in jail is an incredibly severe punishment already - that's a quarter of this kid's life to that point.

I don't buy the revenge angle. We can expect more from people.
Not if you keep the tech. to yourself. Which is why you would do a robotic taxi. You avoid giving out the technology, and so you can charge a premium for your taxi service, while still undercutting traditional taxis.
This was an amazing comment. Thanks for writing it. We recently visited Iceland but didn't hear anything like this. Lovely place.
Yes, that's captured by the defences I listed above. You say that this is an autopilot, you make them purchase self driving capability package, you say that the car comes with all the hardware necessary for self driving, you fans post videos online about cars driving themselves and in the small print you say that it's not autopilot but Autopilot and the drivers must pay attention all the time and you put very weak safeguards to enforce that attention.

It's simple plausible deniability for Tesla and the fanboys. Good enough to keep them off the hook, legally.
The thing is, how useful is an app with a shopping-button and no notifications-button, if no one uses it anymore?

Walmart would be way more profitable if every item was $100. But then no one shops there anymore.

So you need to walk the line between serving your users and serving your bottom line.
I was a happy customer!
>"The library at Saint Catherine’s Monastery located at the foot of the legendary Mount Sinai,

is the oldest continually operating library in the world."

[...]

"Due to its age and importance in the Christian world, the monastery’s library has the second largest collection of

ancient manuscripts and codices,

just after Vatican City.

The library houses several unique and important texts, including the Syriac Sinaiticus and, until 1859, the Codex Sinaiticus, the oldest known complete Bible dating back to around 345 CE. A few years ago, the UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles) Library began reproducing digital copies of about 1,100 unique Syriac and Arabic manuscripts from Saint Catherine’s Monastery."
The abstraction from counting to the natural numbers is called "decategorification", in category theory. The abstraction of sameness is called "equivalence" or "isomorphism".
Thanks! I wonder if the “valuable vs AWD” part is updated to reflect what EVs can do vs old fashioned gears-and-transmission AWD.
I thought it was called Klendathu
I think there was a lot of miscommunication/misinformation shared around. Honestly, even now I'm not entirely sure what the whole thing entails. It's a change of policy that was already in effect, but you have to accept it now? What exactly is now being shared? Being in Europe, there was a lot of talk about how it didn't apply, and yet we still have the message?

I'd not be surprised if a lot of people got "FB (evil!) wants to read everything or they will close your account". Given how often I have received "share this message 10 times or WhatsApp will delete your account" from relatives, I think it also plays into this fear of losing access to your contacts. And it was all over the mainstream news, with the alternatives readily available (and their own shortcomings often not described).
Yes, the emission standards have forced the car manufacturers to offer electric cars. But how does it explain that customers are buying them? Even so much that there are long waiting times when you order an electric car.

The answer is: there are enough customers interested in buying an electric cars but both the available product range and production count limited their ability to do so. With the offerings of electric cars improving, the consumers are happily buying into them.
Well it still speaks volumes about internal culture. Everyone on the team should know they are developing a safety-critical system/component. Yet, the Bob from software can write a sloppy spec and Alice from hardware can not care about the spec being sloppy. It is entirely baffling.
Oh they've got the data. I see it everywhere, Tesla has way less accidents per mile than us horrible human drivers. I don't know what it's based on because every few minutes of footage there's a scary moment on FSD beta videos which are produced by Tesla enthusiasts who have signed some form of NDA (no live stream allowed).
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